According to the Latin author Aulus Gellius, who relates he was present at the episode, a man in a cloak, "with long hair and a beard that reached almost to his waist" once came to the Athenian aristocrat, ex-Roman consul and man of letters Herodes Atticus, who was renowned for his "charm and his Grecian eloquence" and asked that money be given him εἰς ἄρτους ("for bread").
The couple are commemorated in Herodou Attikou Street and Rēgíllēs Street and Square, in downtown Athens.
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Regilla and Herodes Atticus are commemorated, with two streets named after them Herodou Attikou Street and Rēgíllēs Street and a Square named after them in downtown Athens.